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17841) Snitchers
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Years ago Nia lost her father to the violence plaguing her small Indiana city, but when the five-year-old boy she babysits for is killed in a drive-by shooting, she and her friends decide enough is enough and set out to find the murderer--never anticipating how close to home that investigation will lead.
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"When Jean-Marc Sauvet, successful lawyer and the best friend of Aix-en-Provence's examining magistrate Antoine Verlaque, accepted a small role in a local theater's summer production of Marcel Pagnol's Cigalon, he had no idea that the lead actress would be played by the great Liliane Poncet. But Jean-Marc's excitement about rubbing elbows with one of France's legendary film stars is quickly extinguished. The lead actor, Gauthier Lesage, is rude and...
17843) Dreamland
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"Odea Donahue has been able to travel through people's dreams since she was six years old, but when Dea breaks the rules, dreams start to become reality"--
17844) The taking of Annie Thorne
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One night, Annie went missing. Disappeared from her own bed. There were searches, appeals. Everyone thought the worst. And then, miraculously, after forty-eight hours, she came back. But she couldn't, or wouldn't, say what had happened to her... Something happened to my sister. I can't explain what. I just know that when she came back, she wasn't the same. She wasn't my Annie. I didn't want to admit, even to myself, that sometimes I was scared to...
17845) The Frame-Up
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When Sargent Singer discovers that the paintings in his father's gallery are alive, he is pulled into a captivating world behind the frame that he never knew existed.
Filled with shady characters, devious plots, and a grand art heist, this inventive mystery-adventure celebrates art and artists and is perfect for fans of Night at the Museum and Blue Balliett's Chasing Vermeer. There's one important rule at the Beaverbrook Gallery-don't let anyone...
17846) Cold trail
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"On New Year's Eve, Charleston Cold Case Detective Ellie Kline vows this will be the year she finally brings Dr. Lawrence Kingsley to justice. Not only did the elusive serial killer force her to play his twisted games as a teen, but his reign of terror has killed countless other victims and traumatized the few who survived. When her boss hands her the files containing dozens of trafficked children, she's instructed to close as many as possible. Drawn...
17847) Where time stood still
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During the Civil War, hundreds of enslaved people drowned in Ebenezer Creek after being abandoned by the Union Army. The houses near the creek are empty and rundown thanks to rumors that the area is haunted. The ladies of Magnola Investigations were hired to prove one of the houses is ghost-free. Meredith and Julia don't believe in ghosts, but they are puzzled when it looks like the family living in the house disappeared overnight, leaving all their...
17848) The bucket list
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Tess, LuAnn, and Janice are excited to host an Easter egg extravaganza at Wayfarers Inn. Local businesses provided prize eggs, including a golden egg stuffed with $300. When the egg is found empty, the Inn Crowd must discover who the thief could be.
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Agatha has fallen head over heels in love--again. This time, she has her eye on the local gardener, George Marston, but so do other women in their little Cotswold village. Shamelessly determined, Agatha will do anything to get her man--including footing the bill for a charity ball just for the chance to dance with him. And then George doesn't even show up. Only partly deterred, Agatha goes looking for him, and finds his dead body in a compost heap....
17851) Murder at the fair
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"Summer flowers, warm sunshine, a maypole dance and... is that another murder? A tricky case is afoot for Lady Swift! Summer, 1921. Lady Eleanor Swift, the best amateur sleuth in the country, is delighted to be in charge of the prize-giving at her village summer fair. But the traditional homemade raft race takes a tragic turn when the local undertaker, Solemn Jon, turns up dead amongst the ducks. Jon was the life of any party and loved by the entire...
17852) The isle of masks
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Eleven-year-old twins Jason and Julia, along with their friend Rick, search eighteenth-century Venice for Peter Dedalus, the elusive inventor who created Kilmore Cove's Mirror House.
17853) Double trouble
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Meredith sees a mysterious man lurking around her home who bares an uncanny resemblance to her late husband. At the same time, the newly reveled 1733 diary of one of the first women to settle Savanah, which might contain clues to the location of Blackbeard's treasure, is stolen. Meredith and Julia are on the case.
17857) Book, line and sinker
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Lindsey is enjoying her second year in Briar Creek as the library director, meeting with the crafternoon club, and happily dating tour boat captain Mike Sullivan. But when a salvage company arrives in town to dig up treasure buried on Pirate Island over three hundred years ago, the locals are torn between protecting the island and welcoming the publicity.
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eturning to her roots on the rocky, tumultuous coast of Maine with her love interest Kurt Mitchell, Elizabeth Pennington reopens her family's historic inn, which she lovingly restored to its New England charm after a powerful hurricane nearly destroyed it. Unseen forces, however, seem hell-bent on derailing her efforts, or worse--taking her out of the picture.
The untimely death of a young female guest in the inn's fitness center appears to be a...
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"Master of mystery and historical intrigue Anne Perry once again transports readers to the banks of the Thames in Victorian London for her thrilling new William Monk novel. In Revenge in a Cold River, Monk faces his darkest hour ever as he spars with a quarry hell-bent on vengeance. When Commander Monk of the Thames River Police is called to investigate the drowning of an escaped prisoner, he's forced to contend with customs officer McNab, who clearly...
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"Once again, the plumbing at Tawcester Towers is causing consternation for the Dowager Duchess, so - unusually for her - she gives her blessing for Blotto to take part in the 'Great Road Race' in his beloved Lagonda ... so long as he wins. The first prize of 10,000 pre-War sovereigns will help towards repairing the leaky ancestral home. Blotto elects to take chauffeur Corky Froggett as his spare mechanic, while Twinks is despatched by her mother to...